Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 657
PETER J. SCOULAR

Peter J. SCOULAR, a farmer living on section 11, of Raglan Township, came to the county in the fall of 1881, and located on eighty acres of his present farm, which at the time was partly improved. He completed the breaking, erected a house 16x24 feet, built a barn, dug wells, set out an orchard of four hundred and fifty trees, and planted out an artificial grove. His farm now comprises two hundred acres, one hundred and forty being under the plow, while the balance is in pasture and meadow land. The whole tract is surrounded with a substantial fence.

Our subject was born in Canada, May 28, 1850, the son of Thomas and Margaret SCOULER, natives of Scotland, who had a family of six children, as follows:--Jane, Sarah, Belle, deceased; Thomas, Peter, Isabelle. Three of these children live in America. Our subject remained in Canada until he was fourteen years of age, at which time the family moved to Illinois, where they farmed three years, and then came to Wayne County, Iowa. Here our subject remained until twenty years of age, at which time the family moved to Putnam County, Mo., where they engaged in farming and milling, continuing for three years in that locality. We next find the family in Appanoose County, Iowa, where they remained two years, then moved to Wayne County, and from there to Harrison County.

Our subject was united in marriage in the month of July 1869, to Rebecca DODDRILL, the daughter of William and Amanda DODDRILL, natives of Ohio, whose nine children were as follows--George, deceased; James, Emily, deceased; Rebecca, William, deceased; Reuben, deceased; Elizabeth, Daniel and Sarah.

Mr. and Mrs. SCOULAR have been blessed by seven children, in the following order:--Margaret, Isabel M., Thomas W., Amanda J., Anna B., Della, deceased, and James P.

Politically, our subject votes with the People's party. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.

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